Governor's circumventing of the school construction priority list jeopardizes funding for already approved projects           

[SEPT. 9, 2006]  SPRINGFIELD -- State Sen. Larry Bomke, R-Springfield, joined fellow lawmakers and several school superintendents at a press conference on Friday to call on the governor to keep the current school construction grant program intact. The press conference was in response to a promise of money the governor made to Carterville High School during his recent visit to the Williamson County school.

The lawmakers and school officials said the governor's recent decision to provide immediate funding to a school not even on the approved construction grant list is a slap in the face to students and parents in their districts still waiting for desperately needed funding promised in fiscal 2002.

Rochester Community Unit School District 3A is currently at the top of the school construction list.

[News release from Illinois Senate Republicans]

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